Quote of the Month; January – 2012.
“We’re not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader’s own life outside the story changes the story.”
~David Foster Wallace; author, satirist, artist.
Quote of the Month; December…2011
“I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is judging natural events in such a way that I am creating suffering within myself. For instance, you have pain over certain conditions, certain situations that occur. And if you just say ‘ok, here I am, I’m going to experience the pain,’ you don’t suffer. The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.”
~Hubert Selby Jr.; author.
Quote of the Month; November…2011
“If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.”
~Frank Herbert; author and philosopher.
Quote of the Month; October…2011
“Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.”
~Jean-Paul Sartre; author, philosopher and activist.
Quote of the Month; September…2011
“Cynic: A blaggard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.”
~Ambrose Bierce; author, critic and satirist.
Quote of the Month; August…2011
“To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.”
~Katherine Mansfield; author.
Quote of the Month; July…2011
“You’re caught in a labyrinth of choice and possibility in the world today so you have more opportunity to express your desire, fulfill your desire, sin if you like. The thin line between paradise and ‘The Devil’s Circus’. The agony and the internal ecstasy. I try to resonate this.”
~’Youth’ Martin Glover; musician, producer and artist.
Quote of the Month; June…2011
“Music is prophecy: its styles and economic organisation are ahead of the rest of society because it explores, much faster than material reality can, the entire range of possibilities in a given code. It makes audible the new world that will gradually become visible.”
~Jacques Atalli; ‘Noise’ (1977).
Quote of the Month; May…2011
“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
~Edgar Lawrence Doctorow; author.
Quote of the Month; April…2011
“Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.”
~Marshall McLuhan; communications theorist and author.